Luke 17:11-19

Expanded Bible

Be Thankful

¹¹ [^LNow it happened that] While Jesus was on his way to Jerusalem, he was going through the ·area between [middle of; borderlands of] Samaria and Galilee. ¹² As he came into a ·small town [village], ten men ·who had a skin disease [^Twith leprosy; ^Cthe term does not refer to modern leprosy (Hansen’s disease), but to various skin disorders; see Lev. 14] met him there. They ·did not come close to Jesus [^Lstood at a distance] ¹³ but ·called [shouted; raised their voices] to him, “Jesus! Master! Have ·mercy [pity] on us!”

¹⁴ When Jesus saw the men, he said, “Go and show yourselves to the priests [^Conly a priest could declare a person cleansed of such skin disorders; Lev. 14].”

As the ten men were going, they were ·healed [^Lcleansed; ^Cskin disorders like this rendered the person afflicted ceremonially unclean]. ¹⁵ When one of them saw that he was healed, he went back to Jesus, praising God in a loud voice. ¹⁶ Then he ·bowed down [^Lfell on his face] at Jesus’ feet and thanked him. (And this man was a Samaritan [^Ca shocking revelation, since Samaritans were despised by Jews].) ¹⁷ Jesus said, “Weren’t ten men ·healed [^Lcleansed; v. 14]? Where are the other nine? ¹⁸ Is this ·Samaritan [^Lforeigner] the only one who came back to ·thank [^Lgive glory to] God?” ¹⁹ Then Jesus said to him, “Stand up and go on your way. ·You were healed because you believed [^LYour faith has saved/healed you].”